I have a Toshiba A20, updated to process 24 Hz (the correct term) from HD DVDs and SD DVDs with no pulldown, paired with a 42HL167, which accepts 24, 30, and 60 Hz signals. The difference between 24 Hz and your standard 2:3/60 Hz processing is subtle, but I definitely notice more clarity and sharpness than before. Someone on an AVS forum likened it to peeling back a layer from the display to reveal a better picture underneath.
At present, the two problems people are howling about to Toshiba are that 1) there needs to be a "forced 24 Hz" mode for sources filmed this way, and that 2) the XA2 needs to be updated to run at 23.98 Hz (like the A20 does) and not exactly at 24 Hz, which causes frame/lip sync problems.
And Eric is right; more TVs have been including this feature, seemingly ever since the PS3 was updated to run at 24 Hz, with Toshiba announcing they would follow suit soon after. I can only dream of what this would look like on a Pioneer Kuro or those fabled SED sets from Canon.
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Paul Fernandez @ Oct 1st 2007 5:35PM
I have a Toshiba A20, updated to process 24 Hz (the correct term) from HD DVDs and
SD DVDs with no pulldown, paired with a 42HL167, which accepts 24, 30, and 60 Hz signals. The difference between 24 Hz and your standard 2:3/60 Hz processing is subtle, but I definitely notice more clarity and sharpness than before. Someone on an AVS forum likened it to peeling back a layer from the display to reveal a better picture underneath.
At present, the two problems people are howling about to Toshiba are that 1) there needs to be a "forced 24 Hz" mode for sources filmed this way, and that 2) the XA2 needs to be updated to run at 23.98 Hz (like the A20 does) and not exactly at 24 Hz, which causes frame/lip sync problems.
And Eric is right; more TVs have been including this feature, seemingly ever since the PS3 was updated to run at 24 Hz, with Toshiba announcing they would follow suit soon after. I can only dream of what this would look like on a Pioneer Kuro or those fabled SED sets from Canon.